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Jan. 20, 2004
Candidates Face Off at GW
Moseley Braun, Kucinich and Sharpton Vie for DC Presidential
Primary Win
WTOP radio broadcasters Bruce Alan and Mark Plotkin,
along with Washington Post columnist Colbert I. King, and NewsChannel
8 reporter Bruce DePuyt, set the gauntlet for three Democratic presidential
candidates hoping to win the District’s first-in-the-nation presidential
primary. The Jan. 9 debate, sponsored by DC Mayor Anthony Williams, Del.
Eleanor Holmes Norton, and the local chapters of the Urban League and
the NAACP, was broadcast live on WTOP, CSPAN and NewsChannel 8 from the
set of CNN’s “Crossfire” in the Jack Morton Auditorium
in GW’s Media and Public Affairs Building.
The hour-long forum featured candidates Dennis Kucinich, Carol Moseley
Braun and Al Sharpton, and focused on issues of particular interest to
District voters such as DC statehood, school vouchers and city wage taxes.
Plotkin set the tone early on when he asked an empty chair reserved for
former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, why, when he was so concerned with the
rights of District voters, he chose to skip the DC primary in favor of
campaigning for the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary.
The debate marks the fifth time during the early portion of the campaign
season that GW has hosted Democratic hopefuls. Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D–CT)
has made two visits in the past year, discussing homeland security and
access to health care. Sen. John Edwards (D–NC) chose GW to layout
his plan to strengthen the American family and former Ambassador Moseley
Braun discussed women in power at GW’s Mount Vernon campus.
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